This work covers the complex issues involved in intervention with children of battered women and provides an overview of current practice including strategies and program models.
"This book studies the phenomenon of violence which, while being meted out to individual women, is systemically rooted in the social pattern of gender relations. Addressing gender violence requires challenging the means by which gender roles and power relations are defined and a…
Extrait de la couverture : "Violence constitutes a major form of oppressing women. Rooted in the practical experiences of rural Indian women, [the document] explores those facets of social, culturaal and economic life that otherwise appear to have little bearing on gender violen…
"This book studies the phenomenon of violence which, while being meted out to individual women, is systemically rooted in the social pattern of gender relations. Addressing gender violence requires challenging the means by which gender roles and power relations are defined and a…
Violence constitutes a major form of oppressing women. Rooted in the practical experiences of rural Indian women, Countering Gender Violence explores those facets of social, cultural and economic life that otherwise appear to have little bearing on gender violence and hence are …
"How can counselors and clinicians help empower women in a sexist, racist, and homophobic society? How can they help women reclaim their bodies? Or repair their violated bond with womenkind? Taking feminist therapy one step further, this enlightening volume focuses on a central …
"How can counselors and clinicians help empower women in a sexist, racist, and homophobic society? How can they help women reclaim their bodies? Or repair their violated bond with womenkind? Taking feminist therapy one step further, this enlightening volume focuses on a central …
"A first-hand account of the internationally renowned movement protesting against femicide and violence against women"--
"Bringing together the very best in international scholarship with a rich variety of pedagogical features, this innovative new textbook on violence against women is specifically designed to provoke debate, interrogate assumptions and encourage critical thinking. This book presen…
'Bleak Houses: Marital Violence in Victorian Fiction' traces novelists' engagement with the wife-assault debates in the public press between 1828 and the turn of the century.